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Jocelyn Bosse @jocelynbos.se · 21h

Yesterday, DEFRA published the feedback on their consultations about a proposed Precision Bred Plant Variety List for England. Many responses advocated that the variety list should provide transparency about patents, similar to the proposed text in the EU:
ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/10/pate...

Patents make surprise appearance in UK consultation on precision breeding framework

The IPKat blog reports on copyright, patent, trade mark, info-tech and confidentiality issues from a mainly UK and European perspective.

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Jocelyn Bosse @jocelynbos.se · 1d

fascinating

Taylor Mitchell Brown @tmitchellbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Scientists recently found two evolutionarily distinct mushrooms converged to produce the same psychedelic molecule—psilocybin.

The “surprising” results underscore the significance of the hallucinogen but leave questions about its ultimate purpose.

#Psilocybe #MagicMushrooms

New at @science.org 🧪🏺

In mind-bending twist, ‘magic’ mushrooms evolved twice independently

Study identifies entirely new suite of enzymes that can make psilocybin

www.science.org

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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 1d

This collaborative PhD project with the LSE and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century, sounds amazing.

I’m sure many of you might be interested.

#STS #HPS #HistSci

www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

LSE Collaborative Studentship with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

www.lse.ac.uk

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Jocelyn Bosse @jocelynbos.se · 1d

Adding this to my vision board of insane outfits to wear while teaching 😄

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Jocelyn Bosse @jocelynbos.se · 2d

Shameful

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Jocelyn Bosse @jocelynbos.se · 2d

Settlement finally reached in Staccato® cherry plant patent dispute.

Terms included a monetary payment to AAFC, assignment of the Glory patent to AAFC, and the destruction of all “Glory” (Staccato®) trees in Van Well Nursery’s and the Goodwins' possession.
www.freshfruitportal.com/news/2025/10...

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Jocelyn Bosse @jocelynbos.se · 3d

Paeonia plant named 'Smithopus3'

US #PlantPatent 37,005 (granted today)

The variety was the result of a cross made in summer of 2011 in a backyard in Windham, New Hampshire.

large flowers colored pink with a distinctive red basal flare of double form

Photo of pink flower angled to show centre

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H. Karpén 🔵 @karpen.fi · 7d

She kicked the buckée. :(

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 7d

Keeping Up Appearances actor Patricia Routledge dies aged 96

The actor was best known for her role as the pretentious housewife Hyacinth Bucket, and for the series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates Patricia Routledge, the stage and screen actor best known for starring as Hyacinth Bucket in the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances and Henrietta “Hetty” Wainthropp in the television series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, has died at the age of 96. Routledge was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, in 1929 and attended the University of Liverpool and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She began her career in theatre and musical theatre in 1952, later making her Broadway debut in 1966 in How’s the World Treating You. Routledge would go on to win a Tony award and an Olivier for her stage work, and was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for several years, appearing in productions including Richard III, alongside Antony Sher. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Jocelyn Bosse @jocelynbos.se · 9d

ngl, they really had me worried for a moment

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 9d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Jocelyn Bosse @jocelynbos.se · 10d

I wish I had even a small fraction of his patience

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 10d

Stenophylla is a type of coffee that was recently rediscovered in the rainforests of Sierra Leone. As the coffee industry adjusts to climate change, it could be a potential alternative to Arabica.

Yesterday was #NationalCoffeeDay ☕ cen.acs.org/food/food-sc... #chemsky 🧪

Why a long-lost coffee bean rivals the best

Chemistry offers clues about why stenophylla tastes as good as Arabica

cen.acs.org

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Jocelyn Bosse @jocelynbos.se · 10d

oh yikes

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Jocelyn Bosse @jocelynbos.se · 10d

Achillea plant named 'Versred'

US #PlantPatent 36,989 (granted today)

The variety was bred by Janus Verschoor as part of a breeding programme in Haarlem, the Netherlands.

Close up of bright red flowers with yellow centres

a side view of the plant of ‘Versred’ in bloom, sitting outside, showing a large number of red and yellow blooms.

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Jocelyn Bosse @jocelynbos.se · 11d

would contribute to a gofundme to help you buy it haha

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Jocelyn Bosse @jocelynbos.se · 11d

The CJEU has delivered its judgment in the Duca di Salaparuta case, confirming that the protections for well-known trade marks do not apply retroactively geographical indications for wines that were registered under earlier EU regulations.
ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/09/cjeu...

CJEU confirms no retroactive protections for well-known trade marks against GIs for wines in Case C‑341/24

The IPKat blog reports on copyright, patent, trade mark, info-tech and confidentiality issues from a mainly UK and European perspective.

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Jocelyn Bosse @jocelynbos.se · 11d

"Rhizanthella gardneri is not only the world's rarest orchid, it is also one of the most mysterious. It's the only known plant that flowers underground. It also grows, germinates and sets seed totally underground, and is thought to be pollinated by termites."
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

'It lives underground and is fabulous': The race to save the world's rarest orchid

The world's most mysterious and elusive orchid lives underground in Australia. Scientists are trying to rescue this botanic marvel from going completely extinct.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 12d

In a solidaristic sense I also don't think we should be defining ourselves as somehow not immigrants in this discussion. At the very least these cunts should have to say to my face why *I* don't have to worry. Explain yourselves clearly. Why would that be?

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Elizabeth May/Katrina Kendrick @elizabethmay.bsky.social · 12d

I just got indefinite leave to remain 2 years ago, so I'm reading this like, I don't even know what the fuck this means. We pay taxes, we pay TWICE for the NHS, we pay an exorbitant fee for visas to reach ILR, our income is constantly scrutinised. How the fuck more are people supposed to contribute?

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 13d

Dehumanisation as policy.
It ignores people's actual lives and experiences in favour of some sick idea that migrants are just resources to be used and discarded at will.
It is incredible how Labour has become, in practice, the most anti-immigration government in decades.
news.sky.com/story/shaban...

Shabana Mahmood vows law reforms to prove migrants 'contribute' to UK society

The home secretary signalled in her first major interview since taking over the reins that she believed migration "has been too high".

news.sky.com

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 12d

Britain wants to be Dubai but without any of the glamour or treats

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 12d

"Migrants will have to carry out community work or volunteering to qualify to permanently remain in the UK, according to the Home Secretary." [Telegraph]

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Jocelyn Bosse @jocelynbos.se · 15d

The EU General Court has confirmed that a challenge to the novelty of the Pink Lady® apple must proceed:
ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/09/gene...

General Court decision doesn't fall far from the Board of Appeal's tree on validity of apple plant variety rights

The IPKat blog reports on copyright, patent, trade mark, info-tech and confidentiality issues from a mainly UK and European perspective.

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Jocelyn Bosse @jocelynbos.se · 16d

Super interesting!

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Jocelyn Bosse @jocelynbos.se · 17d

My "not interested in discussing my friend's war crimes" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt

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Jocelyn Bosse @jocelynbos.se · 17d

Rose variety named 'AUSCP17960'

US #PlantPatent 36,974 (granted today)

It was bred by Carl Bennett of David Austin Roses, UK, and is sold as a wedding rose under the trademark Phoebe™.

Several blooms showing double, pink-colored blossoms, laid out next to leaves, stems, and other plant parts.

Four plants growing in pots with large blooms

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Aoife O'Donoghue @aoifemod.bsky.social · 17d

Wrote this piece on the need to recognise gendered oppression - in all its forms - as always the path to #tyranny.

Gendered domination is alway present but failing to confront that = also failing to see the rapid return to patriarchy as the first sign of authoritarianism

dflw.ie/power-gender...

Power, Gender and Tyranny in Our Time - Doing Feminist Legal Work

While writing my monograph On Tyranny and the Global Legal Order, the frequent appearance of gender struck me. But, more startling, how little remarked upon

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Jocelyn Bosse @jocelynbos.se · 21d

Thanks so much! Can't wait to share the findings with everyone